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Hall and Staircase Lighting
Use The Perfect Lighting Fixture to Transform Your Home Decor
Foyers, Stairways & Hall
Proper hall and staircase lighting provides a welcoming atmoshphere, and ensures the safety of your family and friends. Whether you are looking for a lamp for a hall table, a ceiling fan, a chandelier, or a decorative wall light, our Hall and Staircase Lighting Guide will provide the information...
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Dining Room Lighting
Transform Your Dining Room With Perfect Lighting
Dining Room
Your dining room table is in place, the chairs are pushed in, and the table is set. The only thing remaining to complete the picture is your lighing, and with so many options to choose from it can get a bit overwhelming. That is why this guide is here to help you determine the dining room lighting option...
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Living Room and Bedroom Lighting
Transform Your Living Area
Living Area
Enhance your room's ambience, emphasise wall textures, highlight artwork, or just provide general illumination for your living room, family room, playrooms, or bedrooms. A variety of different types of living area lighting options will work for both your general lighting and accent lighting needs, so...
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Kitchen Lighting
Use The Perfect Lighting Fixture to Transform Your Kitchen
Kitchen
The kitchen is often the busiest part of the house and good lighting will help a great deal you with your daily cooking, cleaning, and entertaining. Not only are your meals prepared here, but your family and friends gather here for everything from conversation to canapés. Sufficient and adequate kitchen lighting...
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Bathroom Lighting
Use The Perfect Lighting Fixture to Transform Your Bathroom
Bath and Vanity
It's important to find the lighting that works best for your bathroom. Plan around major bathroom fixtures such as the shower, bath, or sink. Areas over 10m2 require several recessed downlights or surface-mounted fixtures. Use companion flush or semi-flush light to supplement vanity lights in larger...
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Outdoor Lighting
Use The Perfect Lighting Fixture to Transform Your Outdoors
Whether your goal is to enhance the beauty of your home, or provide additional security, we have numerous lighting options for your home's exterior. Extend the hours you can spend outside, or create a festive environment. When choosing the appropriate outdoor lighting fixture for your need, consider the following:
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Lighting Glossary
Terms to aid your search for the perfect light
Shortly after venturing into the world of lighting, you’ll probably realise that it’s a bit more complex than you might have thought. Incandescent, fluorescent, downrods – it’s easy to get lost out there. Our glossary of lighting-related terms will aid your search for the perfect light. If you can’t find the answer...
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Lighting Glossary: Lighting Styles
Your Search Guide for the Perfect Lighting Style
Shortly after venturing into the world of lighting, you’ll probably realise that it’s a bit more complex than you might have thought. Tiffany, rustic, oriental, – it’s easy to get lost out there. Our glossary of lighting styles will aid your search for the perfect light. If you can’t find the lighting style here...
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Outdoor Lighting Glossary
A Quick Lesson in Outdoor Lighting
Landscape lighting extends the hours you have to enjoy such pleasures as swimming, gardening, entertaining, reading, eating or relaxing in your outdoor spaces. Landscape lights are also important safety and security devices. Outdoor lighting can highlight bushes and trees or accent the architectural style of your house...
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Outdoor Lighting - Decorating the Outdoor of Your Home
Lighting Decorating Tips to Transform Your Outdoors
Decorating doesn’t have to be limited to the interior of your home. Outdoor lighting is a
functional way to enhance the beauty of your house. It helps create a stunning first impression of your home. There are many
options available for the home owner who is looking to successfully illuminate the exterior of their...
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Track Lighting
Build Your Own Residential and Commercial Track Lighting System
Track Lighting's versatility and adaptability remains the key to its popularity. Browse our selection of track heads and
pendants and track lighting kits to build out your own lighting system within your home or office. Track lighting is a great
alternative to general room lighting, wall washing, or accent lighting...
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Under Cabinet Lighting
Your Guide to Choosing and Installing Under Cabinet Lighting
Our comprehensive guide will walk you through the step by step process of choosing and installing the best under cabinet
lighting fixture for your home:
Why Choose Under Cabinet Lighting?
Types of Under Cabinet Lighting
Plug-In versus Hard-Wired
How to Install Under Cabinet Lighting
Why...
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Light Bulb Glossary
Choosing the perfect light bulb for your lighting fixtures
Now that you have selected the perfect lighting fixture, this helpful glossary of light bulb, or lamp, options will easily
guide you towards finding the correct light bulb for your lighting selection. Although light bulbs are fairly basic in function,
there are so many options that can leave you uncertain. This useful...
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Recessed Lighting
Your Guide to Residential and Commercial Recessed Lighting
Recessed Lighting is one of the most versatile lighting options on the market. Don't let its inconspicuous nature fool you
for these lights are powerful! Place them throughout your ceiling for unobtrusive general lighting for either your home or
office, position them above your sink or desk for task lighting, or...
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Ceiling Fan Glossary
Terms to aid your search for the perfect ceiling fan
When searching for a ceiling fan, you want a fixture that will tastefully match your decor, but the world of ceiling fan can
introduce a complexity of technical terms and parts that can make you feel lost and confused when deciding what to purchase.
Our glossary of ceiling fan related terms is here to aid you in...
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Choosing the Right Ceiling Fan Motor
Find the Perfect Motor to Fit Your Fan!
The heart of every ceiling fan is the motor. Although hidden, without a proper functioning or good
quality motor, the fan will begin to have issues causing you unnecessary displeasure. The motor is responsible for quiet
operation while driving the blades for air movement. Search for high quality motors, heavy duty...
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A Guide to Home and Garden Lighting
Helpful Outdoor Lighting Tips to Illuminate Your Home's Exterior
Home and garden lighting, also called landscape lighting, provides you with a number of possibilities to enhance your
outdoors with beautiful, dramatic lighting. The creative designs you can achieve with home and garden lighting are endless.
The main techniques accomplished with home and garden lighting are uplighting...
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Frequently Asked Lighting Questions
All the answer's to your lighting hows and whys
Why Track Lighting?
A Brief Introduction to the Complexities of Track Lighting
Track lighting's versatility and adaptability remains the key to its popularity. Track lighting is a great way to provide task
or accent lighting; it can be directed to isolate a work of art or other prominent design elements. Another benefit is having
the ability to configure a track lighting system in many ways...
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Lighting Tips for the Home
Trends in Ceiling Lighting
Prevalent and popular trends in lighting that have slowly crept up on residential homeowners are ceiling fixtures such as
pendants, mini pendants, chandeliers, recessed lighting, and flush mount lighting. Ceiling lighting is an important decision for
anyone looking to remodel or redesign one or multiple rooms in...
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A Guide to Architectural Lighting
Helpful Outdoor Lighting Tips to Illuminate Your Home's Exterior
Outdoor Lighting can enhance the beautiful architecture of your home while simultaneously providing safety and security. It
helps your house create a welcoming impression as well as balance light coming from the interior of the home. A lot of time
and money can be spent to make the exterior of your home look nice...
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How to Upgrade Your Home with Modern Lighting
Modern Lighting
When moving into a new home or updating an existing one, it’s easy to become overwhelmed by the number of design and accessory options in the market today. From furniture, wall decor, window treatments, and everything in between, how do we decide which design looks best and what colour will bring out our own personal...
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Add Value to Your Home with Lighting by Room
Lighting by Room
Adding lighting in both obvious and obscure locations in your home not only will strengthen your home’s value in seconds but it will also provide a comfortable, convenient, and relaxing environment for any potential homebuyer looking at your property. Whether it’s something as small as round puck lights in kitchen...
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How to Increase the Value of Your Home with Lighting
Home Lighting Tips
When looking to put value toward your home, the obvious options would include creating curbside appeal through landscaping or installing a new bathroom sink. One less obvious value-added option is with different lighting options. After all, lighting affects people’s moods and a cheerful environment can make for a warm...
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Which Lighting to Look For in Your Flat Search
Flat Lighting
For young city dwellers, renting a flat is very common and with so many options to choose from, how can we tell which place is going to be the perfect one we’d like to call home? One great way to determine if you are getting a good deal on a flat is to look at the light fixtures. While this may not be the most obvious...
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How to Cut Electric Costs with Ceiling Fans
Energy Saving Tips
It’s never a good feeling when we get the electric bill each month and find that the total continues to climb. Unfortunately, most of the energy used is from heating and cooling our homes throughout the chilly and warm seasons and by constantly turning the thermostat up or down depending on the weather, our energy...
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4 Great Ways to Enhance Your Children’s Room
Children's Lighting
If you’ve ever been around children, you will quickly learn that they are always ready for the next activity. Whether they are working on a school project, playing with their toys, or reading a book, it’s important to equip their rooms with the proper lighting necessary to enjoy these activities. When looking into...
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3 Easy Steps to Cut Down on Home Energy Costs
Energy Saving Tips for Your Home
While there is no way of getting around the monthly electric bill, there are ways to cut the cost we put into our homes for electricity. Investing in ‘green’ lighting options such as compact fluorescent light bulbs and Energy Star light fixtures will help alleviate the pressures that we have been feeling from money...
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How Lighting Can Affect Your Health
Seasonal Health Issues
Living a healthy, balanced life may be a lot more difficult than we think. Although we get in our exercise in a few times per week, eat balanced meals, and get the proper sleep we need to perform the next day, there’s one large factor still missing. Sunlight! The lack of natural light in one’s life can seriously affect...
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Tips For Buying A SAD Lamp/Light Therapy Box
Before buying or even considering buying a SAD Lamp or Light therapy box, you may want to keep in mind the following advice.
The price tag can be an indicator of quality but not always. You can expect to pay from £120 - £270 for a really good quality
lamp. Another good...
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Full Spectrum Lighting
A Guide To Full Spectrum Lighting
Light Therapy
A Guide To Therapeutic Lighting
Transitional Lighting Styles
Transitional Outdoor Lighting
Transitional lighting is by far an attractive tool to utilise when decorating your outdoors. Transitional lighting is so
be-fitting because the style isn’t too rigid or clean cut as the traditional, nor is it too fashion forward and edgy as the
contemporary. The duly named style finds itself positioned in the...
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LED Lighting Styles
Contemporary Lighting- LED Lights
Contemporary lighting is by far the trendiest lighting style today. Everything is clean cut, neat and organised, representing the
ideology of less means more. Sleek, soft design lines and a broader range of colour and material help to define the organic form.
Fashion forward design lends this trendsetter its characteristics...
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Home Lighting Ideas
Home Lighting Decorating Ideas - Interior Lamps
Purchasing lighting for your home can be a significant and exciting decision whether you are decorating a new room or revamping
an old one. Many different moods can be achieved by lighting depending on the room type as well as the lamp style. No matter what
room you choose, there are three basic functions an interior...
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